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My Galaxy Nexus (via Google Play)'s wifi broke after one month, just outside of the Google Play Store 30-day guarantee. No attempts at software changes fixed the issue; clearly something went bad in the hardware.

I've been delaying getting it fixed because it'll be a five week turnaround from Samsung support, according to forum posts regarding similar issues. It also sounds like Samsung's support is nightmarish.

Meanwhile, I'm sure if this had happened with my old iPhone 4 (which I'll be using while my GNex is away), I could have gone to the Apple Store about half an hour away and gotten it either replaced on the spot, or at least been able to work with an employee right there to get it sent out instead of having to go through the standard terrible warranty processes. Even if there was no Apple Store near me, I've never heard any complaints about Apple's phone support like I have about other manufacturers.

The point of all of this: while Google obviously won't have the retail support an Apple Store does, by having exclusive call centers regarding only a few devices, they'll be able to make sure their employees are better trained and their phone processes much more streamlined than the manufacturers ever could. In fact, maybe I'll just tough it out with my wifi-less phone until the new call center opens...
Your paycheck is, occasionally, a burnt-offering to the gods of Trusted Third Party Opinion, just like it is sometimes a magical talisman against Blowback If This Goes Sour.

Worth it for that line alone. There's a special art in being the one who gets the idea through purely because you're a third party and not the internal person/team. Some of my happiest gigs are when I've ended up getting paid to teach management to listen to the team and implement their suggestions. Everybody wins ;-)
Not that great yet. My day job doesn't allow me much time to focus on everything an app implies. Hopefully I will fix this soon.
Facebook phone numbers leaked
http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/10/10/facebook-confirms-researcher-exploited-privacy-settings-to-quickly-collect-user-phone-numbers/
Americans spend about 2x more on Halloween candy ($2.2B)
You're describing a trie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
It's not quite the same thing but this problem strongly reminded me of Chapter 1 of Programming Pearls: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/cto.html
I thought this was a joke at first, poking fun at the rediculous minimalistic design - solid square button. But there is actually some content.
Actually, I'm really surprised they got permission from all the sports leagues to use their trademarks and not have to put some small print in crediting them. You don't get to use the Premier League logo, for example, without a licence.

(to answer your second point, I've done a lot of work in the sports area, so use of league and team logos is something I'm fairly up on).
Learn your OOP, algorithms, and your programming. Then decide, learn Ruby first then decide. Most of these answers are one liners and you shouldn't base your decision on that. Most frustration and trouble people get with PHP/Ruby/RoR is that they haven't learned the fundamentals and "it's crap!" because you can't figure something out because you don't have the fundamentals of it down. If you are particular to a framework you're always going to turn a blind eye to some feature that you don't agree with. That is going to be true for anything you get your hands on.

With that being said and I being a PHP developer and have been learning Ruby/RoR for a few months(obsessively). I like the elegance of a lot of the solutions and tricks. And the general mindset of the community. Any book, tutorial, or screencast I pickup always mentions best practices and how to make your code clean, lean, refactor and extendable. This is done to a point that I feel safe in assuming that is the overall mindset.

It's not an easy decision, but you shouldn't have to make it. Don't think of it as a "ditch". You're keeping your knowledge of programming. That should be emphasized, you're applying this knowledge to a new area, hopefully learning more, which can in turn be applied to PHP helping you better your craft.
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Because, regardless of whether the company performed well or not the senior execs and the CEO considered their right to cash out.

But didn't hold the employees to have the same right.

Which actually speaks a lot about the intentions of those senior execs, which is clearly to play a hit and run game.
Wait, iPad 1 supports iOS6 no?
They do look clickable when in context. Verbs such has "Delete" signal to me, regardless of how much gradient or border-radius an element has, that it is in fact a button. As do actionable icons like a trash can.
Personally i think this is great news. And i would very much like to see Java ending up in the same boat.

Having a language that is not inherently designed to be run in a sandboxed environment should not be allowed to run in a browser.
Good guess! That's the trie that he mentions. I would have also approached it that way.
Neatly done... It's a great hack in 3 hours... Would love to learn about it, if the code is open sourced.
Only one suggestion, results could be listed neatly. That's it.
Could you email me at draftpulse at gmail dot com to give me a little info on how that works?
I wonder if someday in 30 years people will look back in the same way and say: wow, you know there was once a time when search engines were major feats of engineering - and Decentralized Networks were deemed impractical!

They just as us, were resource limited. The modern constraints have merely shifted. They came up with amazing tricks to get around physical bottlenecks - just as we do now. We tend to call our current foci engineering instead of 'bags of tricks/hacks'. But when technology progresses till we take things for granted that were once hard, we young ones look back with a mix of disbelief and awe that people used to go through so much trouble for something that is now so trivial.
I didn't really look at the middle two but the first one is easy and this one is downright trivial if you've taken any sort of database and networks course. If you haven't though, it's impossible to reason about.

These are just recall questions. Why not have something like "why was the sliding window incorporated into TCP?" which would show that people actually had some understanding of what they learned. Similarly, instead of the ACID question, something like "what's the implication of brewers CAP theorem?" would be a better question.
On the contrary, it makes perfect sense given the target audience. I don't have a problem with hunky males appearing on the covers of romance novels.
View Demo: http://blog.sportschimp.com/post/33361582535/sportschimp-dem...

Legality:

No buy-in using your credit card. No independent wagers on a specific match-up.
Huh. As a non-American I was under the impression that the Romney camp was significantly out-spending Obama.

What do the numbers look like if you add the earlier spending by the various Republican presidential candidates?
Did anyone (who writes parallel code or purchases CPUs professionally) really not know this?

I'm not trying to pick on the article, I like it overall. I took an interest in the Anand article when I learned you could build a 64-core box for about $4000.

This is the article it's in response to http://www.anandtech.com/show/5057/the-bulldozer-aftermath-d... the crux of which is:

Some, including sources inside AMD, have blamed Global Foundries for not delivering higher clocked SKUs. Sure, the clock speed targets for Interlagos were probably closer to 3GHz instead of 2.3GHz. But that does not explain why the extra integer cores do not deliver. We were promised up to 50% higher performance thanks to the 33% extra cores, but we got 20% at the most.

So the real questions seem to be:

Is Interlagos' perfomance disappointing on pure-parallel benchmarks as well, or just those with a noticeable serial bottleneck?

If there is poor scalability, what is the cause?

and perhaps most importantly: Will my kind of workload actually benefit from Interlagos' more cores?

I think that probably what's happening is that even the pure parallel benchmarks are not scaling linearly relative to the previous generation of chips, the reason is a combination of architectural changes in the core itself and memory bus contention, and the target market for these chips is VPS hosts running hundreds of VM images.
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I'd love to see this as a webapp. I'm one of those folks that just doesn't use apps or even sign in to my apple account. I'm sure more of my kind exist.

EDIT: Whoops I see this has paid in-app purchases. I wonder if there's something out there that can offer as seamless an experience as iTunes in-app purchases for webapps.
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You bought something and quickly afterwards it broke?

Don't repair, get a refund and buy it again. Easy.
I have to agree with this.
I don't understand what each button does or what I have to do to play or win.
Nice UI though.
https://img.skitch.com/20121011-k29i1jdb68u41g1ikhqdkemmjx.j...
Chrome 21.0.1180.89, OS X (10.6.8)

I've been able to replicate this in my own projects as well.
I don't think it's good marketing to associate your business with Zynga nowadays.
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Thanks for the link!

I guess he did say that in the article, but "trie" wasn't part of my algorithmic vocabulary...until now.
Bevelled buttons make a flat object appear to be three dimensional. It predates what we think of skeuomorphism today, but it's just a predecessor.
TERRIBLE!!!!
Ouch.

Keen observers of database history may remember Sybase. Sybase made a similar decision about doing their own scheduling, rather than relying on the operating system. Oracle at that time let the OS do the scheduling. The former turned out to be a strategic mistake.
Yeah, I got a bad feeling when I saw that this company would purposely associate themselves with Zynga. Something does feel quite off. I have no comment on the legality, but I get the feeling a whole new demographic is going to be sucked into "clicking cows" or betting against their friends and spamming their walls. To top it off, you can only log in with Facebook ATM.
Where broke = made it run 20% slower.
"the most parallel programs" are those that run on supercomputers / huge clusters, and they don't have these bottlenecks...

But for the average parallel programs, you are (currently) right, I guess.
+1 exactly right. I clipped this article to Evernote and had to toggle all summaries visible first.

BTW, that is a great style guide, and mostly how I code in CL.
Xorg also seems to have that kind of behaviors. Basically any software with a "master" process and a bunch of slaves which tries to reach high performances and cross-platform stability appears to go with that kind of stuff.
Apologies are nice; now, who is going to jail for what happened?
It looks like these are two layer boards, meaning you can route traces either on the top (red line) or the bottom (blue line) of the board.

have read that prototyping on breadboard doesn't work well.

That's definitely not my experience. Using a solderless breadboard may add more noise, but it's much easier to assemble and correct mistakes.
No, it doesn't.
Marco has been talking a lot on his podcast about dropping support for the iPad 1 for Instapaper as well in order to use some of the new iOS6 features.
Blue vs red represent the top and bottom layers of the PCB. When the video switches from red to blue it is to prevent two different paths from overlapping.
By that token we would assume that anything that takes any effort is legal.

You can argue if something should be legal or not and that's a fair debate, but some people are concerned if something is legal or not, and they have a right to ask that question.

Personally I wouldn't use the site because they're using the logos of well known sports organisations, and I presume they're doing this without their knowledge or approval. It's maybe not a big deal but it's enough for me not to trust them with my data.
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If I'm understanding correctly, the two core limit is only for initially waking the process, after which normal load balancing can move it elsewhere if necessary. There's a benefit to sticking to one of the two same hyper threaded CPUs in terms of cache, so this does make sense even on 32 core machines.
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That's changing the layer of the trace, from top to bottom. Note the vias (circular elements in the design) where the color transition occurs.

To the OP: Looks great! I like the approach for modules, I've often wished Eagle had an easier way to achieve this =) A question though, it looks like there's only one ground source allowed? Or, can those properties be changed? I prefer to separate AGND from GND when I have both analog and digital interfaces to the outside world.
I don't think an app based on likely illegal use of copyrights/trademarks is something that is sustainable.

My guess is that people may be able to transfer money into accounts, but if this app get shutdown, customers may lose some or all of their money.
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This is so cool.. Using it... loving it... Thanks guys...
OK, that makes more sense. Actually reading the site, I don't see why anyone would opt for that service over something like CloudFront and some manual optimization, unless it was a very small project.
It's neat at first, but then it becomes very distracting, to the point where it is difficult to focus on anything else on the page. Perhaps the mouse movement can be captured only when it enters a bounding box around the image (+ some padding)?

I'm not sure if I can think of a use case for this, but I am also confident that someone, somewhere, will make an awesome thing using lenticular.js :)
Is there a way to link to external reviews? I've reviewed both Introduction to Databases (http://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases-...) and Design and Analysis of Algorithms Part I (http://henrikwarne.com/2012/05/08/coursera-algorithms-course...)
The biggest myth is probably that the CPU is the most important part for performance. There are so many other bottlenecks that you can easily run into (drive, memory, memory bus, ...) that blindly updating the CPU (more MHz / more cores) is simply wrong.
Wow, I didn't know he was planning to drop support for the 1st gen iPad. Bad news. :(
I for one am a fan of the Metro look. Whether I'd ever use it on a client's site, that I can't say but for my own creations I simply adore the look. Awesome work!

Can you maybe point me towards any other metro UI libraries you may have found?
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"The vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters"

"Firefox 16 itself fixed 14 vulnerabilities in version 15, including 11 that could allow attackers to install software without any user interaction beyond normal browsing."

Sounds like 16 is still less dangerous than the older version. Why are they telling people to downgrade?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/mozilla-pulls-day-ol...

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefo...
Fascinating! I look forward to the day when data collection methods are similarly looked upon as trivial by future standards. Dealing with PDF documents one cannot scrape, yet needs the data, gets to be ridiculous!
> Page turning buttons are the killer feature for me. ... having to (touch) the screen all the time made it as bad as reading on an iPad for me

This is the exact reason that I have 2 Kindle's on my nightstand now. I much prefer the Kindle Keyboard because of it's page turning buttons. However, the Paperwhite has replaced my iPad as my reading device of choice for after my wife goes to sleep.
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My Big 2:
1) Why page turn?, why not page down? English reads top to bottom. Seems like a big improvement would be a page down instead of a page across.

2) If I zoom into text I don't want to have to horizontally scroll, that's even more annoying that small text.
any plans to get this in use by any high school or college courses? Could you create a Udacity/Coursera "EE 101" course that uses circuit.io?
A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines of Perl or Python ... That's progress.

That's progress in terms of cheap RAM and cheap CPU cycles. In terms of software architecture, that's not progress -- that's brute force.

Assuming that code for efficiently indexing and compressing this kind of dictionary was written 25 years ago, there doesn't seem to be any good reason not to reuse it. The fact that there's impedance to doing so means that our languages and our tools still need improving.

(25 years ago I'd have predicted that in 2012 some kind of AI-driven optimizer could have figured out the correct data structures for this problem and automatically converted the naive hash table lookup into a more efficient structure)

Also, jeesh, use mmap() and a binary search or something.
Interesting concept - thanks for sharing. Ours come with documentation and video walkthroughs along with support. I'm afraid if we are targeting startups (who tend to be hackers), there won't be much money in providing just support. I like what reveal.js has done. We are a bit different in the sense that we follow a more standard pitch deck - I think reveal.js can get a bit confusing or overwhelming for an older crowd.
Well, I think the definition applies when the thought was that the reason the CEO was able to cash out was because he set different rules for himself from his employees, as was explained, and that he knew the true outlook of the company which was bad, as was explained. What more do you require to understand the situation?

I mean, if the CEO told everyone up front about the tactics he was going to use to allow him to cash out early that also prevented everyone else from doing the same at the same time and also that the future of the company was all downhill; then maybe you have a point.

Maybe saying they were cheated is a better phrase for you?

If you don't agree that that's fine. Which, by the way, I have a bridge for sale you might be interested in...
AFAIK, just about everybody writing high performance multiprocess/thread code that relies heavily on mutexes makes some use of user-mode spin-locking.

It's essential if you have N processes contending for a single mutex which they will hold for very short periods of time. Asking the kernel to put you to sleep until the mutex is available means progress is limited by the rate at which the OS can wake up processes. If the mutex is only going to be held for a few dozen cycles (say, to increment the heads of a few queues) then the throughput cost could be considerable over simply spinning a few nanoseconds in user mode until the mutex is available.

And yes, the need becomes more acute if you want to be sure you'll get reasonable performance across a broad range of platforms and their corresponding scheduling policies.
Eff eBay. They will not let me SELL anything on eBay because I sold like 15 items at once liquifiying a cousin store. I canceled one and was late on 2. This was like 6 years ago and I was young and reckless. I made a new account last week to try to sell 2 iPhones I had laying around. iPhone4 32gb and iPhone4S 64GB, both unlocked. Was almost at 800 for both and coming down to the last days. POOF. They removed my listings. I called and they said they can't do anything and there isn't anything I can do.

I would sell on Craigslist but everyone wants to undercut or bargain the hell out of you. I guess I'll just put it there anyway. The phones have GOT TO GO.
I was not able to find any reference to "diamonds" as the title here would have you believe. Perhaps you posted the wrong URL?
I'm going to disagree, for several reasons.

First, eBay doesn't need saving. As long as they don't choose a UI that is needlessly onerous, they will do fine with or without. It will boil down to whether they are facilitating new users or pissing off old users; a better UI can increase growth, a bad one can reduce it, but when you're in the position they're in, a nice UI is practically a kindness rather than a necessity. Look at Craigslist.

Second, how much of Pinterest is essentially shopping without the purchasing? I'd venture quite a bit of it. I know my wife and sisters-in-law use Pinterest extensively, and they're mostly looking at things they want to buy (and recipes). Both Pinterest and eBay are about tapping into your greed as quickly as possible. It seems like a move in the right direction--and perhaps an implicit acknowledgement that they are Pinterest's principle competitor.

Finally, and this is kind of a technicality, the old layout didn't punish bad photos as much as it should. If you uploaded a shitty little photo, in the list view it looked the same as a nice big photo until you clicked through. Switching to an image-heavy master layout will encourage people to take better photos, and better photos will increase sales.

All things considered, this is the only site I've seen since Pinterest that really should be using this layout.
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I would pay a significant premium for that sort of deluxe luxury device. I doubt Amazon will ever do it because they're all about scale. I wonder if they'd ever work with a third-party for doing that sort of work.